All Screen articles in 12 May 2007 – Page 6
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We Are Together (Thina Simunye)
Dir. Paul Taylor. UK. 2006. 86minsThe young singers in We Are Together (Thina Simunye) are some of the estimated 1.2m orphans in South Africa today, most of whom lost their parents to AIDS-related illnesses. The motivational documentary by Paul Taylor observed them singing and struggling over three years. The themes ...
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Where God Left His Shoes
Dir: Salvatore Stabile. US. 2007. 99mins.There's no question that Where God Left His Shoes contains its fair share of cliches; it also skirts dangerously close to sentimentality. But writer/producer/director Salvatore Stabile, who made his debut feature Gravesend when he was just 19, keeps his second film on track and ultimately ...
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Lovesickness (Maldeamores)
Dir: Carlitos Ruiz Ruiz. Puerto Rico. 2007. 90mins.A bright new talent emerges from Puerto Rico in writer/director Carlitos Ruiz Ruiz, whose debut feature Maldeamores (aka Lovesickness) is a warm-hearted and witty tryptych of stories about the dysfunctions and masochism of love. The film had a strong reception at its Tribeca ...
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The Workshop
Dir: Jamie Morgan. UK. 2007. 93mins.One of the most talked about films at the recent Tribeca Film Festival, UK documentary The Workshop from first-time film-maker Jamie Morgan is a personal hand-held record of a ten-day workshop Morgan took with 'guru' Paul Lowe in northern California. While hardly the most technically ...
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Australian government radically overhauls film sector
The Australian government has announced the most fundamental structural and financing shake-up of Australian film for nearly 20 years. As expected, and as proposed by the industry itself, a tax rebate is to be introduced for producers from July 1 this year. It will allow filmmakers to claim back 40% ...
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Hong Kong's Johnnie To splits from Milkyway Image
Leading Hong Kong director Johnnie To is parting ways from Milkyway Image, the production outfit he founded with fellow filmmaker Dennis Law, which is listed on Hong Kong's Growth Enterprise Market (GEM). To is paying $3.3m (HK$26m) to acquire two Milkyway Image subsidiaries - Milkyway Image Hong Kong and Luminous ...
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InnoForm snaps up Singapore rights to Chinese trio
Further positioning itself as a major buyer, InnoForm Media has acquired Singapore rights to three major Chinese titles - Peter Ho-sun Chan's The Warlords from ARM Distribution, Benny Chan's Invisible Target from Universe Films Distribution and John Woo-produced Blood Brothers from CMC Entertainment. InnoForm aims to join the day-and-date pan-Asian ...
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Amritraj, Hyde Park set Asian ambitions
Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park Entertainment has created an Asian division Hyde Park Asia with ambitions to produce both international and local films in the region while securing local backing from various institutions and investors.Amritraj says he already has an office opened in India and is planning to open one shortly ...
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Mandate to sell Ghost House/Vertigo horror Incident
Mandate Pictures will commence sales in Cannes on the Ghost House Pictures and Vertigo Entertainment horror tale Incident At Sans Asylum.Daniel Calparsoro is directing from a screenplay by S Craig Zahler about volunteer cooks at an insane asylum who get trapped inside the building with the cream of the criminally ...
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Warner Bros ceases all preview screenings in Canada
Warner Bros Canada fired a broadside at Canadian lawmakers yesterday when it announced it was immediately ceasing all preview screenings in the territory as a result of what it regarded as inadequate anti-piracy policy.Citing ongoing state and federal efforts to curb piracy in the US, Warner Bros' anti-piracy chief Darcy ...
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Warner Japan wins government import award for fourth time
Warner Entertainment Japan has received the 2007 Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Award for best importer-distributor of the year for the fourth time.The award was handed out at a ceremony on Apr 18 at the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce. Warner Japan president and representative director William Ireton accepted the ...
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Dubinet leaves Myriad and heads to Revelations
Revelations Entertainment partners Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary have hired former Myriad Pictures distribution chief Ann Dubinet to head their new financing arm Global Revelations.The new venture will nurture a 'talent inspired' consortium of equity and hedge fund personnel ranging from studios and financiers to international players in Europe, Asia ...
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Spider-Man 3 actual weekend gross higher than estimates
Spider-Man 3 actually grossed more than initial weekend estimates suggested, taking $382m worldwide and $231m internationally in its first six days, and $151m in its first three days in North America.The action epic screened in 4,252 domestic theatres for a $35,540 per-theatre average, and played in 8,900 overseas venues.It opened ...
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Intrepid buys rights to graphic novel The Expendable One
Los Angeles-based production and financing company Intrepid Pictures has acquired Jason M Burns' graphic novel The Expendable One and has hired Shane Kuhn and Brendan Cowles to co-write the screenplay.The Expendable One is an action-comedy about an ordinary man who realises after accidentally drinking his friend's scientific experiment that his ...
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WHV signs five-year extension on Zaentz distribution deal
Warner Home Video (WHV) has signed a five-year extension to its global distribution deal with producer Saul Zaentz.WHV will continue to distribute Zaentz' films, which include the HD DVD and Blue-Ray releases of Oscar winners One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus in February 2008.'Warner respects the passion I ...
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Dori Begley joins Tom Quinn on Magnolia's acquisitions team
Dori Begley has joined Magnolia Pictures' New York office in the newly created role of director of acquisitions and will report to head of acquisitions Tom Quinn.Begley recently served as associate programmer at the Tribeca Film Festival. Prior to that she worked from 1998-2006 in various capacities at Sony Pictures ...
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Lightning picks up Bonneville starring Lange, Bates, Allen
Los Angeles-based Lightning Entertainment has added Christopher Rowley's female road movie Bonneville starring Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates and Joan Allen to its Cannes slate.The film premiered at Toronto last year and follows the exploits of a disillusioned woman who enlists two friends and embarks upon a trip across the Great ...
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Three German films in running for Student Foreign Academy Award
Five finalists selected from a record 49 entries representing 33 countries will vie for the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 2007 Honorary Foreign Film Award in the 34th Annual Student Academy Awards.The winning film-maker will be brought to Los Angeles in June to participate in a week of ...
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Turin to feature retrospectives of Wenders and Cassavetes
Turin Film Festival director Nanni Moretti has announced two retrospectives and two new sections. In his first edition as artistic director of the 25-year-old festival, Moretti has selected John Cassavetes, as well as to German director and President of the European Film Academy, Wim Wenders as subjects of two retrospectives. ...
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Korea to host Cinema Digital Seoul film festival in July
A new film festival was unveiled in Seoul today - the Cinema Digital Seoul 2007 Film Festival (CinDi 2007) - which has secured sponsorship from the CJ Culture Foundation and Korean Culture & Arts Foundation. Korean Academy of Film Arts director and a digital filmmaker, Park Ki-Yong, jointly heads CinDi ...